No Hope
The struggling mother got into the outhouse and locked the door behind her. She felt completely hopeless and alone, going through one of the most difficult times in her life all by herself. Not to mention, she was far from home and stuck laboring in a wooden outhouse. As she considered what to do, there seemed to be no options left. She was already dealing with extreme poverty- barely able to eat, drink, or allow her children to do the same.
The Farmer’s Discovery
That afternoon, the old farmer was still searching for the source of painful cries in the very same outhouse the mother had been in earlier. As he exhausted all of his options, the man realized that he only had one place left to look. Although it was the last thing that he wanted to do, the farmer listened to his instincts and took a peek right into the deep toilet. Since it was an outhouse, the toilet was just a massive hole in the ground.